KenM
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Got this 20 second film clip last Wednesday NE.London, first seen flying on a straight line at 130 degrees (already foreshortening when I got it in the viewfinder) Essentially black, flying fairly quickly adjacent to the wind, before a sudden turn into the strong gusting NWesterlies. My first impressions were Phalacrocorax...albeit a small one, with generally faster wing-beats, I thought a Shag!!!! and that's what I put it out as.
However I was niggled with it's flight speed and ''abrupt'' turns, thus I consequently took more grabs (25 per second), from the beginning, centre and end of the clip, and to my complete surprise! two of the frames indicate a pale/white contrasting panel to the secondaries.
On that basis I can only compute Velvet Scoter, what say others?
Cheers
https://youtu.be/cIZ_cpf3oQM
However I was niggled with it's flight speed and ''abrupt'' turns, thus I consequently took more grabs (25 per second), from the beginning, centre and end of the clip, and to my complete surprise! two of the frames indicate a pale/white contrasting panel to the secondaries.
On that basis I can only compute Velvet Scoter, what say others?
Cheers
https://youtu.be/cIZ_cpf3oQM
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